Is it really so hard to put a shopping cart back in the corral? Sorry, I'm a bit militant when it comes to returning shopping carts. I've walked far and wide across parking lots delivering shopping carts to their proper corrals: the lonely Target shopping cart, standing alone and forlorn, in the way faraway BJs parking lot; the Acme cart, only one parking spot from the corral...so DAMN close to home, but not quite. And it's not enough to just shove it into the corral, all crooked and turned halfway around. Nope, that thing shoves quite nicely into the body of the one before it, and that one goes into the one before that and on and on...it's a perfectly neat, tidy arrangement when it's done correctly, the corral loading, and creates a more pleasant shopping experience and happier store employees when they have to fetch the snuggled line of carts and bring them back to the store.
So why the HELL is it so difficult for some people to perform this one little exercise of common courtesy?
I was at BJs recently and this woman had unloaded her stuff about 2 cars down from me and left the cart there by the back of her van. She didn't appear to notice as it slowly started rolling toward my van as I was just getting out, and only looked up after the cart had finished its jaunty roll and smacked into my door. Now, if it were me, I'd be tripping over myself apologizing...but damn if she just didn't take off. She saw it, I know she did...but she just. kept. going.
Honest to god, these stupid corrals are everywhere! Are people really so lazy they can't walk a few steps to return the goddamn cart? Why, yes! Yes they are! Perhaps someone clever could design a shopping cart with some kind of radio signal in it, that could steer it back to the nearest corral. Or...maybe they could have motion sensors on them, and some automatic radio speaker thing and can sense when they've been emptied and could simply say: "If you are finished with me, would you kindly return me to my corral?" Wouldn't YOU return your cart if it politely asked you to?
Cart Deserters. Lazy-ass Cart Deserters.
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Where you live do you see carts being used for personal use? Here they're considered a second vehicle! Anywhoo, because of that, there are businesses solely for the profit of retrieving carts and returning them to their respective homes. At other businesses, machines give quarters for returning carts to the corral. (sounds like you'd be rich C!!!) And yet, other stores the wheels on their carts are on some sort of radio/sonic wavelength that make the wheels lock up if one tries to steal a cart and take it out of its little parking lot home. However, sometimes the wheels just lock up on ya without warning-usually when your cart is filled to maximum capacity with 50 lb bags of dry dog food and cases of water! Here you are, smack dab in the middle of an aisle (a crime in itself!) STUCK! while you're struggling to make it budge enough at least to get over to one side so that you don't get the snears, curses and dirty looks! (the old ladies are the worst! what shocking language!) Meanwhile, heard over the loudspeaker....
"Traffic blocked in Aisle Five!"
"Courtesy Clerk to Aisle 5 !"
"Mop needed in Aisle 5 !"
"Security to Aisle 5 !!!"
Well, the homeless folks sometimes use them to cart their stuff around, and sometimes people will just take them off the lot...you seem them abandoned in odd places in town. But it completely irks me that people just leave them right where they are, when they just need to walk a few steps to return them.
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